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27 La. 464

Lynch v. Kennedy

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided May 15, 1875

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1875-05-15

<p>Tlxe plaintiff is himself a ship carpenter, and all the defects which he alleges to be in the schooner which he purchased at a public sale, if they existed, being ai>parent, he can not complain that the property he purchased was not what he had a right to expect it would be.</p>

Decided 1875-05-15

Morgan, J.

¶1Plaintiff purchased a schooner from the defendants for five thousand dollars, two thousand five hundred dollars cash and the balance in his two notes, one for five hundred dollars, payable one month after date; the other for two thousand dollars, payable four months after date. The purchase was made on the twenty-sixth of February, 1873.

¶2On the twentieth of March following he brought this suit to enjoin the defendants from disposing of the notes, and to recover $2141 21 to be credited on the notes.

¶3His allegations are that the defendants fraudulently concealed from him the draught of the vessel, and that the rigging, sails, etc., were not new, as they were represented to be.

¶4The sale was made by public act, and in that act nothing is said as to the draught of the schooner or the condition of her rigging.

¶5The plaintiff is himself a ship carpenter, and all the defects of which he complains were, if they existed, apparent. He can not, therefore, complain that the property he purchased was not what he had a right to expect it would be.

¶6It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the judgment of the district court be avoided, annulled and reversed; that the injunction herein issued be dissolved; that this suit be dismissed, and that the plaintiff pay costs in both courts.

¶7Rehearing refused.

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